This would work well in Florida except that our police no longer enforce traffic laws.
Idiots tailgate when they can see over the car in front of them.
I had a small car and people frequently tailgated me even though I usually drive 10-15 mph over the speed limit. One day I rolled down the window and asked a tailgating bmw driving punk how fast I am supposed to drive....well my wife freaked because she was afraid I would end up getting shot ( road rage thing...also popular here in Florida).
I told my wife that there were two choices. I buy a gun or a larger vehicle.
So, I got a 6500 lb, 3/4 ton pickup with a Cummins diesel that smokes pretty good if I mash the peddle. For some reason I never have anyone tailgating anymore....
I have been giving this a great deal of thought for forming my own corporation. Make the software tool open source and simply providing the configuration service.
The question I have is, what happens if a rival company claims it is a patent violation? Does OSS offer any protection?
If I have some software that I wrote, and it is possibly in conflict, unbeknownst to me, with an existing software patent, what happens if I throw it in the public domain like sourceforge.
Wouldn't that protect me from lawsuits, and allow me to continue using it to perform my service?
Standards for User Interfaces are great for toilet bowls. If you want to create things that look just like everyone elses creation, then go into toilet bowl manufacturing.
You may want to checkout http://www.ecollege.com I don't know much about how to register with them but I do know that they are a legitimate organization.
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Great idea. If I didn't have such bad karma I would boost this up.
This would work well in Florida except that our police no longer enforce traffic laws.
Idiots tailgate when they can see over the car in front of them.
I had a small car and people frequently tailgated me even though I usually drive 10-15 mph over the speed limit. One day I rolled down the window and asked a tailgating bmw driving punk how fast I am supposed to drive....well my wife freaked because she was afraid I would end up getting shot ( road rage thing...also popular here in Florida).
I told my wife that there were two choices. I buy a gun or a larger vehicle.
So, I got a 6500 lb, 3/4 ton pickup with a Cummins diesel that smokes pretty good if I mash the peddle. For some reason I never have anyone tailgating anymore....
( and i get better mileage)
Ok, slightly off topic, but not really....
If a company posts its software innovations in the public domain as open source, wouldn't that protect it from the preditory IP companies?
MSNBC.
This story was on msnbc.com yesterday. Old News for Nerds?
I have been giving this a great deal of thought for forming my own corporation. Make the software tool open source and simply providing the configuration service.
The question I have is, what happens if a rival company claims it is a patent violation? Does OSS offer any protection?
I know, I know, I have bad karma, but seriously:
If I have some software that I wrote, and it is possibly in conflict, unbeknownst to me, with an existing software patent, what happens if I throw it in the public domain like sourceforge.
Wouldn't that protect me from lawsuits, and allow me to continue using it to perform my service?
Would be nice if someone could make Tivo reverse the fourth quarter of the World Champion Tampa Bay Buc's game against the Colts two weeks ago on MNF.
it doesn't suck enough. I think Microsoft will have to add some innovation so it sucks more.
Surely he was a MS sysadmin.
See, now if you were running UNIX you wouldn't have this problem, would you?
Suck.
Let me know when MS Interview comes out. maybe we will get better questions next time.
My new HP Pavillion computer came with XP pre-installed. Last night I found tcl/tk was also pre-installed ( no kidding).
.Net ?
Isn't this a competitor of
Standards for User Interfaces are great for toilet bowls. If you want to create things that look just like everyone elses creation, then go into toilet bowl manufacturing.
What happened to the previous Chief Software Architect? Was he assimilated?
Will they use Java? Will it be open source? Will it be Object Oriented? I will wait for the linux version.
You may want to checkout http://www.ecollege.com I don't know much about how to register with them but I do know that they are a legitimate organization.